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leadership team
Punakaiki DOC’s
top spot
The Pancake Rocks are the most
visited Department of Conser vation
site on the West Coast, even
ahead of the glaciers. A sur vey was
released yesterday by Conser vation
Minister Maggie Barry, to coincide
with Conser vation Week. On the
West Coast, 83% of people visited
the DOC estate in the past year, the
third highest figure in the country
after Tasman and Marlborough.
The most popular spot is the
Paparoa National Park (51%), which
includes the Punakaiki blowholes.
Next is Arthur’s Pass, then the
glaciers and Lake Matheson.
Cape Foulwind is fourth, followed
by Denniston and Lake Rotoiti.
Overall, the report showed 74%
of New Zealanders — about 2.5
million people — visited public
conser vation land last year, which
was up 3% on the previous year. For
more information on Conser vation
Week activities check out www.doc.
govt.nz/getting-involved/events-
and-awards/conser vation-week
Rolleston folk to
meet on
1080 factor y
Rolleston residents are still
agitating over the 1080 poison bait
plant. Petition organiser Jonathan
Scott said last night the Rolleston
Residents Association had agreed to
support a public meeting about the
proposed factory — 49% owned by
the West Coast Regional Council
— within the next month. A
representative of the company that
owns the factory will also be invited
to attend.
Residents in a tower block have
been left baffled by a mysterious
‘ urine’ liquid which is seeping
through their ceilings. The bright
yellow substance has been dripping
through the ceilings into the
corridors of the flat complex in
Southampton, Hants. Householders
in the 15-storey building, are
forced to leave buckets out to catch
what they call a ‘disgusting’ liquid.
Residents in Albion Towers say they
have contacted the local council but
the issue still has not been resolved.
One resident says she has put out
two containers for the mysterious
liquid which she says “smells of the
zoo”. Angela Chicken, 52, said: “ We
have had water coming through the
ceiling before. But when I came out
and saw it was yellow, I wondered
what it was — it looks like urine.”
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Council staff member photographed 1080 protesters
Laura Mills
A West Coast Regional Council
staff member photographed those
taking part in the anti-1080 poison
protest outside the council offices on
October 23.
The Greymouth Star was contacted
by someone alleging council staff had
been in the crowd outside the council
offices, taking photos as about 160
people protested the council’s secret
$1.9 million investment in a 1080
poison factory in Rolleston.
Council chief executive Chris Ingle
said yesterday the picketers were not
photographed for the council.
“A staff member took photos in her
own time (on her lunch break) in her
capacity as a private citizen.
“Council has not asked for copies
of those photos, and neither does it
intend to,” Mr Ingle said.
Meanwhile, the Star also asked Mr
Ingle if the $1.9m investment, made
17 months before it was exposed by
the Greymouth Star, was ever going
to be made public.
“Councillors discussed this at their
last meeting, but decided against it at
that stage,” Mr Ingle replied.
He claimed the funds invested were
“not ratepayer money ”.
However, he confirmed when
questioned that it was public money,
although not accumulated from
people’s rates.
The $1.9m came from the council’s
investment fund, which was started
in 2000 when all four West Coast
councils were given $7m each by the
government as compensation when
native logging was stopped.
At the same time the government
provided $120m to
set
up
Development West Coast.
The regional council invested its
$7m, which has since grown to about
$12m.
Mr Ingle said that as long as the
investment continued to grow and
deliver income, the council could
continue to hold its general rate.
“The regional council has not raised
its general rate for 17 years now
(beyond the natural growth in the
rating roll), but this is only possible
because of the income from the
investment fund and income from
the council’s VCS (Vector Control
Ser vices) business unit.”
Vector Control Ser vices carries
out pest control operations, largely
with 1080 poison, under contract
to the likes of the Animal Health
Board.
Council
warns
over rates
boycott
Laura Mills
The West Coast Regional Council has
written to people refusing to pay their
rates in protest over its $1.9 million
investment in a 1080 poison bait plant,
warning that normal debt collection
procedures will apply.
The council said yesterday about four
people had written indicating they
would be withholding payment of rates,
but it was not keeping precise figures.
The Greymouth Star is aware of two
people who are not bothered by 1080, but
are angry the council, while promoting
development, has invested off the Coast.
Ban 1080 Party candidate Peter Salter
is prepared for a fight.
Even though his rates are not
overdue, rates officer Tony Peel wrote
to him saying, “No money raised from
ratepayers was used to fund council’s
commercial property investment at
Rolleston or its 49% investment in Pest
Control Research Ltd partnership”.
The money was from the council’s
existing investment portfolio, which
was started in 2000 with a $7m
payment from the government when
native logging was brought to an
end. Each of the four councils on
the West Coast received $7m, while
$120m was used to set up Development
West Coast.
“ Your right to protest council decisions
is respected, but I need to point out that
council rates are properly and legally
set and that non-payment will incur
10% penalties pursuant to the Local
Government (Rating) Act 2002.”
Normal debt collecting procedures
would apply.
Mr Salter urged protesters to stay
strong. He also said he was not refusing
to pay his rates, but withholding them,
which was different.
“ If anyone feels threatened, contact
me.”
Mr Salter said the $7m was for
investment on the West Coast to offset
logging job losses, and instead it had
been spent in Canterbury.
“ It is members of the council who have
stepped over the line and thinking it was
their money to do with it as they liked,
without consulting the ratepayers on
the Coast and have shown their utter
contempt,” he said in a letter to the
council.
West Coast-Tasman MP Damien
O’Connor, who was in Parliament
during the handover of the native
logging package, said the regional
council could say the money was from
its investment portfolio.
It was the overall perception of
ratepayers that was “the issue for them”.
In December 2013, the regional
council presented its draft economic
development plan at a forum it called
at Shantytown. By that time it had
already invested in the Rolleston 1080
factory, but kept that secret until it
was exposed only last month by the
Greymouth Star.
Council chairman Andrew Robb’s
presentation noted the regional council
could take a leading role in being “more
proactive in our communities”.
He also said it should “enable West
Coasters to be a part of this from the
beginning”.
Possible debris
and
other
clues, including tyre marks, of a
camper van feared swept off the
road by a massive landslide on the
Haast Pass highway in September
2013 had already been cleared away
by the time the van occupants, a
Canadian couple, were reported
missing several days later, an inquest
heard in Greymouth this morning.
Tasman police district specialist
crash investigator Simon Burbery
made the comment to southern
regional coroner David Crerar in the
Greymouth District Court during
the reconvened inquest into the
death of Joanna Lam and Connor
Hayes. They were apparently swept
to their deaths on September 10
when the slip was brought down
at Diana Falls, on the steep uphill
section of the Haast Pass.
While the coroner made a finding
in February, in which he formally
established the death of Mr Hayes
and Ms Lam, the inquest was
formally reconvened today to hear
further circumstantial evidence.
The couple were last seen alive in
the Haast township on the evening
of September 10, after they signalled
they were driving on to Wanaka.
Miss Lam’s body was recovered
about 5km north of the Haast
River mouth, shortly after she was
reported missing on September 17.
Mr Hayes’ body has never been
found.
Mr Burbery said the “unusual
circumstances” surrounding the
disappearance of the pair meant
analysis of the events at the time
could not be pinned down beyond
probable scenarios based around
extreme weather at the time and
known road conditions as a result.
He said they were either caught
by a slip or that the camper van
had slipped off the road edge while
trying to avoid debris on the road.
At the time the weather was
“extreme”, with heavy rain and
thunder. While a camper van
was seen near Snapshot Creek at
6.30pm that evening, “it has never
been confirmed it was them”.
However, given the time sequence
of events it seemed likely it was the
missing tourists.
Mr Burbery said what appeared
to be their camper van had driven
across the Gates of Haast bridge a
short while later, when road worker
William Caird was on the road
putting out warning signs.
“At that time, he had already
recommended that the road be
closed,” Mr Burbery said.
Other vehicles in the Diana Falls
and Pipin Creek area at the time
were at least five minutes behind.
This included the vehicle of Haast
resident Dayna Buchanan, who was
on her way to D unedin and was
being guided across the Gates of
Haast by Mr Caird.
They were then halted by a small
slip and decided to turn around and
return to Haast township.
Ms Buchanan told the inquest
today that at the point they had
started to turn around, a white
campervan pulled up about 15-20m
away on the other side of the slip.
The camper van did not respond to
light signals made by the vehicles on
her side of the slip.
(Proceeding)
Two scenarios in Haast fatality
PICTURE: Nicholas McBride
SPCA Greymouth event co-ordinator Joy Dense with nine-week-old border collie-cross Choi is calling for donations this week as part of the
annual appeal. Collectors will be on the streets and outside Countdown during the week. Funds raised will help with animal rescue and treating
animals that are sick, injured, lost, abused or abandoned. SPCA chief executive Ric Odom said their work was almost entirely funded by donations.
The SPCA helped more than 56,000 animals in the past year.
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